1950s Public Health Campaign
Unfinished History
Ortega and Sunset, c. 1951
Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
Sagamore and Orizaba, c. 1956
Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
Public Health officials campaigned relentlessly in the 1950s to end the common habit of dumping household garbage in the dunes of the western and southern areas of San Francisco.